A Bibliometric Study of Reference Literature in the Sciences and Social Sciences.

Glanzel, Wolfgang; Schoepflin, Urs

Information Processing & Management, v35 n1 p31-44 Jan 1999

Describes a study that investigated the proportions of references to serials and to non-serial literature in science and social sciences fields, whether there is a relation between the age of the references and their type, and whether there is a correlation between the reference age and the share of non-serial literature. (LRW)